Re: Todd Underwood was a little late

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Roy <r.engehausen () gmail com> wrote:
> On 6/16/2010 7:43 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> >  With a larger
> > network, multiple IP blocks, ***numerous multihomed customers***, some of which
> > use IP's we've assigned them, it gets a little more complicated to do.
> > I could reject at our border, packets sourced from our IP ranges with
> > exceptions for any of the IP blocks we've assigned to multihomed customers.
>
> Sounds like a good use of URPF.

Reverse path filtering + asymmetric routing = epic fail. Jon did say
Multihomed customer.

Refer to RFC 3704 (BCP84). Note section 2.2 (Strict Reverse Path
Forwarding) last part of the final sentence: "in particular, when
applied to multihoming to different ISPs, this assumption may fail."

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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